The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-10-27

The Trial OF l. j. Davis Tor Killing
Miller to Begin in Montgomery
County Superior Court this Week
Atlanta Real Estate not Deprecated
by Prohibition.
GEORGIA
The Brunswick Grist mill has commenced
grinding.
Subscription books have been opened by
the Rome Water Works Company.
Rev. Men. Mckay has resigned the pas
torate of the Presbyterian church of Griffin.
The Dublin Gazette has just received a
new power press to supplant its old-time
press.
Sam Jones and Reuben Arnold will hold
a joint discussion on the prohibition ques-
ton at Atlanta soon.
Johnston, Liberty county, failed to get
incorporated as the matter was started too
late, but it is nevertheless on a boom.
Percy Blount. of Savannah, has pur-
chased a place near Grovetown, and will
improve it in the near future and make it
his home
DIR. T. 7. Williams, for long time the
only dentist of Dublin, died last Saturday
morning of consumption at his fathers
home in Montgomery county. He leaves a
wife and several children.
The Ebenezer Baptist Association held its
annual meeting with Blue Water church,
six miles below Dublin, last week. The an
nual proceedings were gone through with,
and the old officers elected, namely: T.. j.
Coats moderator; w $. Ramsay, clerk;
and Mercer Haynes, treasurer.
The work of completing the new Ogle-
thorpe Hotel at Brunswick is progressing
rapidly. The interior finish is going for
Hai,, Oh
pets will be laid, and the furniture will
arrive and be placed. The manager will
be S. +. Crittenden, late manager of the
Hygeia Hotel at Old Point Comfort.
Hinesville Gazette. Winfield w. Geiger,
of Bryan, is justly ranked among our lead
ing farmers He has harvested over
$50 bushels of corn from fifty acres.
This is not equal to the Western prairie
country, where corn is more plentiful than
wood, and is sometimes used as a substitute
for coal, but an average of seventeen bushels
TO the acre will do very well for the fiat
woods of Bryan. II is needless to add that
Mr. Geiger has fat horses, fat hogs and fat
chickens.
Montgomery Superior Court is in session
this week. 1t is probable that the trial of
|. j. Davis, for the murder of Miller, will
come off at this term of the court. Davis
is at present confined fr safe-keeping in the
Jail at Macon. Over 100 witnesses are sub
punaed in this case, and it will consume
considerable time to examine them. There
is also a case for rape pending that will
probably be heard at this term, and the two
cases together bid fair to bankrupt the
broad state of Montgomery
At Atlanta the Capital City Bank has
sold to Eiseman Bros. the store now occu-
pied by that firm for SS5, 900. The bank
bought the property for SOB 900 and has
added 81, 600 in improvements. The other
property held by tie bank has increased in
about the same proportions. J. w Harle
has bought $4,000 worth of stock of the
bank. This is the first cooperative bank
started in Atlanta, and its success is signifi
cant. II has Atlanta real estate as basis
Of investment, and that beats gold
A large meeting of colored citizens of
Augusta was held Tuesday night, to hear
from Philip Joseph, the Director General
Of the National Exposition of the Colored
Race, to be held in Atlanta in November,
1885. 1t was unanimously decided that the
colored people of Augusta should make an
exhibit. The object of the exposition is to
show the progress OF the race, both intel
leetually and mechanically in the past
twenty -five years. They expect to raise
biggest show ever gotten up by colored
people of this country.
A crazy negro woman employed a con-
tractor in Augusta to build her a S6l0
dwelling on leased land out in the southern
portion of the city. After the building was
completed the contractor called upon the
woman for his money, when much to his
surprise she informed him that she had no
money. The contractor was so perplexed
that he did not know what to do, but he
decided to hold the keys and not give them
hn1aga an l. lxr
ment plan to the owner OF the lot. Con
tractors are generally very shrewd men,
hut this time one of the fraternity was bad
ly downed.
An Augusta lady, Mrs N. K. Butler, who
possesses artistic talent to a high degree.
sent handsome souvenir to Macon to be
presented to ex-President Davis. The me-
inento is in the shape of the popular badge
the face of which is white satin The dec
Grating, which is painting. is the feature of
the work, being an artistically interviewer
design embracing the first and last flag and
the battle flag, which are truly and admira-
bly, rendered. Below this is the monogram
&c. 5. A" and Augusta. Ga" Capt. j.
w. Clark, who accompanied the survivors,
was requested by Mrs Butler to make the
presentation.
w. H. Daniel, a well-known citizen of
Wilkinson county, who lives near the
Oconee river, Is now "a years old, has nine
teen full fiedged boys and four daughters.
He says he never had a fever in his life.
never took dose of medicine never had
the backache, and can do more hard work
than any man in the district He gets up
at o'clock in the morning, never fails to
put in ten hours of good, lively work every
day. eats three good square meals day,
and does not drink coffee, tea or anything
stimulating. He relies upon the laws of
nature for good health, and he expects to
live to be 100 years old.
Augusta Chronicle: The capital of Geor-
gia in ITS was the town of Augusta. One
hundred years have passed and the city is
not listed among the dead towns of Georgia,
but is foremost in the ranks of the manu-
featuring cities of the United States, the
leading cotton market of the South, and
fast becoming the great commercial mart
aud distributing point Of the South In 1856
Savannah was beseiged, and the capital
was removed to Augusta. In 1857
all of the original States save
Rhode Island met and adopted the constitu-
ton of the United States At the town of
Augusta on Jan g 1888, the constitution of
the United States was adopted on behalf of
Georgia by convention of delegates from
different parts of the State In 1889 all the
delegates selected to the Georgia Legisla-
ture were from Richmond county.
The Capitol then stood where l.
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